is the man page for the driver out of sync (5.4, 6-current) ?:
HARDWARE
The hptmv driver supports the following ATA RAID controllers:
· HighPoint's RocketRAID 182x series
so it does suport 18x0 and 18x0A (that is my understanding from the
posts)? (it does according to highpoint but not according to the man
page)
i was not planning to buy hardware raid solution but the price is not
that bad (considering that i can plug it to the existing machine now and
having it running in a new motherboard later).
I won't go as far as to say that the 1820 is definitely supported, as I
don't know exactly, but you could probably look through the driver source
for our ATA system to see if the card ID is present, and then you'd know
for sure. I would personally think that the 1810 would be supported, as
it's probably all int he same family of cards, so it's probably not too
different to support all revisions. However, I'm not a coder, so I don't
want to give you bad advice.
The one benefit of the hardware raid card, as opposed to the 'software
raid' ones, is that if my motherboard fails, I can in theory pull out the
raid card and drives, move them into another system, and boot back up
without missing a beat, since the raid metadat and config is contained on
the actual card, and not controlled by a software driver or the operating
system. I've known others to have reported that this is easy, and does
work fine, but I have no personal experience (yet) on that one. Plus,
with true hardware, you obviously get the performance gains as well, since
you can (as is the case with my setup) use a lower standard system and
CPU, since the hardware card does all the hard work for you, and you don't
rely on the local system CPU to do it.
well, the card is likely to move to and AMD64 bit machine i am planning
to buy in about a year.
That will probably result in one quick system, I'd love to see performance
numbers on that just to drool over.
thank you all very much for responding, especially pointing to me that
the sil chip-sets are not that good. it would be great if the (S)ATA
maintainer summarised his opinions somewhere ;-).
You're welcome, I hate to have someone buy a solution that's not optimal,
and end up havnig troubles with it down the road, and have wasted money
and time on a solution when it could be avoided from the start.
And, actually, if you search the -current mailing lists, you'll see plenty
of Soren's gripes about the crappiness of the SiI cards when he was
writing support for them. I've been tracking -current for a few years
now, and that's how I know to avoid those cards. Also, I haven't looked
yet to confirm, but I'd bet that the ATA code is probably peppered with
"choice comments" about what he needed to do to get the card to work.
Good luck... :)
vlad
-Gary
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